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Example sentences for: deter

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It wants to keep prices high enough to ensure profits but low enough to deter the development of new fields.
Other legitimate objectives include removing predators from the general population and setting an example to deter potential criminals.
They make targets harder to attack successfully, and they deter attacks by making capture more likely.
The NYT lead concerning the Vatican points out that while the document issued Monday is described by the Church as "an act of repentance" for the failure of Roman Catholics to deter the mass killings in Europe during the Holocaust, it skirts the issue of the Vatican's institutional shortcomings during the era, primarily its official silence about the Nazis.
We learned that the institutions charged with protecting our borders, civil aviation, and national security did not understand how grave this threat could be, and did not adjust their policies, plans, and practices to deter or defeat it.